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None that I am aware of. We run a bunch of 11th Gen here and are getting quotes right now to build out our staging environment with 12th Gen.

What issues are you concerned about? I could see, possibly, if you are running a peculiar form of virtualization that is dependent upon the underlying hardware not changing, but we are not anticipating any issues with our Xen/KVM environments.

We sell primarily in the secondary market (9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th Gen). The majority of our customers are spec'd out on 11th Gen servers. Since Dell is slowly ceasing production of that line I'm curious as to how that will be affecting our customers. I still have clients purchasing 2950's regularly because of various dependencies. I was trying to get a better feel for how the new line is affecting the Dell server customer base so I can be more proactive in addressing potential issues.

The only issue you will run into in the migration is that the 11th generation servers and earlier support Windows Server 2003, and the 12th generation servers do not support it, unless installed as a VM. Despite that the servers shouldn't have any real issue with migrating. I would suggest updating the server to the latest driver and firmware versions before starting the migration.

Are the drive caddies the same between generations? That's a question I'm not clear on yet.

Other than that, the storage densities available on the 12th Gen servers makes them very nice. The price premium on Sandy Bridge equipment is a bummer, though, if you need storage density, but not processor power.

yeah, the trays are the same. We've gotten in some R620's and R720's to play with. I do like the storage density on the R720's....nice to run drives accross the front and not have to mess with a SAN. Our customers have had to rely on R510's for that purpose up until now. That being said, we will selling the heck out of the 10's for the forseeable future due to the price delta on those processors.

Besides virtualization chip based issues the only other issue I could see would be application/software related. I know certain vendors write programs to work well or only work with certain chips (for example a music production house I worked with in CA could only use Intel 5570's). I don't anticipate you having any issues on that side however. Do you?

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